AMAZON FRONTLINES

Building community resilience: in efforts to uplift indigenous women as leaders in their communities and develop economic alternatives to fossil fuel extraction, we empower aspiring women entrepreneurs from across the region through our women's leadership and entrepreneurship school, offering workshops on leadership and organizational capacity building for women-led associations, introductions to basic it, computer skills, accounting, finances, e-commerce and digital communications.since 2023, we have supported indigenous nationalities, currently the waorani, kofan and siekopai, to develop and implement their own intercultural education models. These processes involve entire communities and nations, from elders to parents to indigenous authorities, unifying a collective struggle for the cultural survival of their peoples, and the passing down of their ancestral forest knowledge to indigenous youth, who ultimately will be the next generation of leaders fighting on the frontlines of the climate crisis to defend the amazon rainforest.

As we scale our impact across the upper amazon, we are strengthening amazon frontlines' operational capacity by expanding our teams, planning processes, partnerships, and long-term sustainability, as well as helping our indigenous partner organizations to bolster their governance, communications, advocacy, and climate leadership on the regional and global stage. As part of this, we are growing our training and mentorship programs that enable indigenous leaders and youth to document their realities, share ancestral knowledge, and amplify their voices worldwide through innovative media productionbuilding the visibility and influence needed to defend their territories and drive transformative climate action.